US Patent Issued to Taiyo Yuden on March 24 for "Multilayer ceramic electronic component and manufacturing method thereof" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,586,726, issued on March 24, was assigned to Taiyo Yuden Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Multilayer ceramic electronic component and manufacturing method thereof" was invented by Yuji Tomizawa (Tokyo) and Yasuhito Hagiwara (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a multilayer ceramic electronic component including a ceramic element having a multilayer body in which internal electrodes are stacked with interposition of a dielectric layer and the internal electrodes are led out in a direction orthogonal to a stacking direction, and a protective part located at least on upper and lower surfaces of the multilayer body in the stacking direction,...